FW: "Host

James jwhittington at excelorant.com
Mon Mar 29 21:08:41 CEST 2004


If he's using the dag rpm builds etc may be elsewhere (like
/etc/nagios)..

James

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 12:59, Marc Powell wrote:
> I haven't installed any of the sample configs recently and the full path
> can vary depending on your method and location of installation but it's
> usually found in /usr/local/nagios/etc/commands.cfg. You could always
> grep for it:
> 
> cd /usr/local/nagios/etc/; grep -iRle
> "command_name.*host-notify-by-email" *
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> On Monday, March 29, 2004 11:19 AM, Daniel.Mesimer at med.va.gov shared
> with us:
> 
> > Marc/All,
> > 
> > Where would I look for that information?  I can't seems to find a
> > "notify-by-email" command to check its inputs, etc. 
> > 
> > Dan Mesimer
> > Kansas City VA Medical Center
> > Network Support
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:34 AM
> > To: Daniel.Mesimer at med.va.gov; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] FW: "Host
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, March 29, 2004 8:13 AM, Daniel.Mesimer at med.va.gov shared
> > with 
> > us:
> > 
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > I am using Nagios 1.2 am the forwarded message here is what Nagios
> > > is sending as its status update email. It is obviously not formatted
> > > correctly (or at least not the way I expected it to be formatted). 
> > > Is there something I can change to make this behave more the way I
> > > expect it to? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Dan Mesimer
> > > Kansas City VA Medical Center
> > > Network Support
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios at vhakannms.kansas-city.med.va.gov
> > > [mailto:nagios at vhakannms.kansas-city.med.va.gov]
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:23 AM
> > > To: alert at vhakannms.kansas-city.med.va.gov; ",
> > > daniel.mesimer at med.va.gov, DOWN, for"@b15f7.kansas-city.med.va.gov
> > > Subject: "Host 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> >
> ""*****""Nagios""*****nnNotification""Type:""PROBLEMnHost:""b15f7nState:
> > ""DO
> > > 
> >
> WNnAddress:""10.120.128.46nInfo:""/bin/ping""-n""-U""-c""1""10.120.128.4
> > 6nnD
> > > ate/Time:""Sun""Mar""28""08:22:40""CST""2004n""
> > 
> > 
> > Take a look at your host/service notify-by-email commands and make
> > sure that 
> > they are using whatever flags are necessary to enable interpretation
> > of 
> > escape sequences for your OS. If the commands are using echo, you'll
> > probably need to add a -e argument to it (i.e. echo -e "***** Nagios
> > *****\n..."). I believe printf interprets escape sequences properly by
> > default so you could use that instead of echo -e but you should
> > consult the 
> > man pages as both options vary by OS and release.
> 
> 
> 
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